Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Just another day of the Missouri GOP acting a fool...

This is the last week of the 2012 Session of the Missouri
Assembly.

Thanks the Goddess!

And it’s a damned shame to look upon a legislative session
as something to endure…to see elected officials as the enemy set to do you
harm…and to wait anxiously to see what insulting public display of hating the masses they’ll come up with next.

That brings me back to this being the final week of session,
yesterday’s public display of lout-based boorish ig'nance, and the alarming fact
that state legislators still have four days left to show their natural ass.

Shall we?

I’ve made no secret of my disgust over Speaker Tilley’s plan
to honor Rush Limbaugh in the Hall of Famous Missourians at the Capitol. Limbaugh represents everything wrong
with Missouri…racism, sexism, the ability of rich people to circumnavigate the
criminal justice system while poor people convicted of the same crime languish
in jail, and a tendency for the money elite of the state to bedazzle poor
residents into voting against their own best interest through a manipulation of
so-called social value issues. But the same things that make me know Limbaugh is unfit for any honor at the Capitol are the very things that make those who benefit from that bedazzling at the polls
want to honor him.

And so they have…in a partisan “ceremony” saturated in wrongness,
reeking of political pander, and closed to the public despite the fact that it
took place in the middle of the damn day during the final week of session on
the floor of the Missouri House of Representatives.

Limbaugh arrived with 40 state troopers (did my tax dollars
pay for that?) and was smuggled into the Capitol where Republican lawmakers and
their staff greeted him much like North Koreans used to greet Kim Jung Il…and
then Limbaugh was honored at an invitation only ceremony on the House floor
that was closed to the public.

I can’t help but see yesterday’s theatre as metaphor for the
2012 Session.

It brought embarrassment and ridicule upon the Missouri
Assembly, was done behind closed doors and the people were denied entrance…and
the sole purpose appears to be kissing the ass of a rich white man who likes to
spend his days insulting women, making racist jokes, bullying gays, calling for
harsh legal repercussions for poor people convicted of drug crimes while feeling
entitled to a pass his own damned self, and generally accomplishing nothing
only to call it a day, grab a stogie, and kick back with the boys to make more
racist jokes, laugh about how they bullied those gays (good times!), and then
stroke their guns while muttering about how brown people are going to come flooding
over the Missouri/Kansas border bent on steeling their liberty.

6 comments:

According to the account of this in the KC Star, the speaker of the house responsible for Limbaugh's induction said that all the secrecy and exclusion of Democrats and MO Highway Patrol officers guarding the locked doors was because "We wanted to make sure Mr. Limbaugh and his family could attend and were treated respectfully."

Pause.

As your last paragraph so eloquently makes clear, respectful treatment is not something one expects to hear about in the same sentence with Rush Limbaugh.

I'm seeing a ninja-clad person at wherever they put that statue. It's guarded, of course, but the traditional fog of sleeping gas, not to mention the muscle relaxants in the hamburgers, have rendered the guards rather less conscious than the bosses would like...

Next, through movie magic planning, any security camera is showing a number of nude dancers of various genders in case the soporifics don't work...

The person in the matte-black jumpsuit drills a small hole into the statue of Mr. L (it doesn't matter where, since the statue is as hollow as the man) and inserts a package of time-release rat feces...